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  • 9point6@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I think it was very slightly more than a regular folder in that there was a sync wizard IIRC.

    I think you set it up with a piece of removable media and then you could press the sync button when it was present to take the newest file from either the removable media or the local disk. I also vaguely remember a conflict resolution screen where if both copies had changed you could keep one, the other or both. I’m trying to remember if you could have a 3-point sync where you used the removable media as a way of keeping the briefcase on your home and work computers in sync, but I never used that feature if it did exist.

    So yeah, It didn’t do much more than just dragging and dropping (as I think the OS dialog had similar conflict resolution at least from windows 98ish) but the two way aspect was pretty useful.

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      5 months ago

      Yep - it kept files in sync.

      I never used it, though I always thought it was useful idea. Not sure how problematic it could be how did it handle collisions?)

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        It handled collisions very very poorly.

        I used it for a while, but gave up after it shit its pants when a file had been independently modified on the two systems.